{
  "id": 8148336,
  "title": "Designing Against Deskilling: Metacognitive Feedback Reduces Cognitive Offloading to LLM Assistants",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/17/designing-against-deskilling-metacognitive-feedback-reduces-cognitive",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-09-17T12:35:04.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "arXiv cs.AI",
    "slug": "arxiv-cs-ai",
    "url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.20143v1"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Cognitive offloading to AI can reduce opportunities to practice skills, creating risks of deskilling. However, it remains unclear how to prevent deskilling without restricting access to AI. Here, we design two interventions to reduce offloading decisions: (1) metacognitive feedback that makes the implications of offloading for users explicit, and (2) an effort-based reward that incentivizes less…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
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    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}